Chu: Eat, drink, man, woman. Basic human desires. Can’t avoid them. All my life, that’s all I’ve ever done. It pisses me off. Is that all there is to life? - Yin Shi Nan Nu
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. - Pearl S. Buck
Birdee Pruitt: Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome. That’s what momma always says. She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts the most. Try to remember that when you find yourself at a new beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up. And it will… - Hope Floats
– In Which the Green Shall Turn
morning showers
patter the sill
kaleidoscope
the walk
dancing notes
and melodies
rouse the sleeping
tousled head
pools reflect
the mottled sky
ruptured storm
captures thought
rests upon
brush and loam
brings with it
her lonely song
yet hidden beneath
amber waves
that carpet
the forest floor
sleeping lies
such subtle
reverie
in which
the green
shall turn
again.
I totally agree with the “middle years”- life was hard then too but I felt great, confident and hopeful. thanks for sharing .love U, Mom
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